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Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)

Tahereh Mafi

Start date: August 1, 2015

Finish date: September 30, 2015

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Sep 22, 2012 Renuka rated it it was amazing

Shelves: paranormal, fantasy, favorites, young-adult, science-fiction, dystopia, romance, e-book, cliff-hangers, owned

My initial thoughts….. asdfghjklpoiuytrewqzxcvbnm

After organizing this into actual words I got this….. OMG WHAT JUST HAPPENED HOW CAN THIS BOOK BE POSSIBLE IT IS TOO GOOD TO EXIST BUT OH SWEET JESUS AM I GLAD IT DOES.

After organizing and tweaking this garbled sentence a little bit more I finally got this… This book just blew my mind. The plot, yes it was dystopian but seriously? Can you really group it into one category? The characters, Juliette, Adam, Warner, James, Kenji just all so flawless. ...more

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Apr 28, 2011 Beth rated it it was ok

Didn't love it. The prose was tedious and superfluous. And I'm kind of really getting tired of this genre. So maybe it's not Shatter Me as much as it's me. But then I remember how much I truly loved another dystopian/romance and realize it is probably Not.Me. ...more

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Apr 18, 2011 Melissa-The Book Addict rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I think I fell in love while I was reading this book. Juliette was awesome in a strange way. She totally had some issues going on, but that is understandable seeings as how she has spent the last 264 days in isolation. No one has touched her, or even really spoken to her. One day she is informed that she is getting a room mate cell mate. She spends quite a lot of time being paranoid and wary of this room mate cell mate. There is so much to this book, twists, turns and romance. I loved Juliette's ...more

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Jun 07, 2013 Ami E. Bowen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 100-books-in-2013

I would recommend this book for people interested in a first-person romantic dystopian that reads like breathtaking metaphorical poetry. So many negative reviews. At least they're honest, which is positive in and of itself. Mine will be, hopefully, as positively honest as I can write it since I've continued to enjoy what I've read, and be gently critical for what I did not. Since finishing I found the prose is very creative and pretty and story, especially near the second half, to be exciting an ...more

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May 06, 2011 Sane rated it liked it

Shelves: own, dystopia, dystomance

Read on my blog to see the strike troughs/outs/whatevas: http://booksgeeksftw.blogspot.com/201...

Uhhhh... before I start this review I think it is worth mentioning, that I haven't written a book review in 18 months. It's going to take me forever a while to get back into the groove.

I was very excited to finally get my hands on Shatter Me. One thing you miss out on when you're not blogging are review copies and drama. I actually had to *gasp* wait for Shatter Me to be released to the general publ Read on my blog to see the strike troughs/outs/whatevas: http://booksgeeksftw.blogspot.com/201...

Uhhhh... before I start this review I think it is worth mentioning, that I haven't written a book review in 18 months. It's going to take me forever a while to get back into the groove.

I was very excited to finally get my hands on Shatter Me. One thing you miss out on when you're not blogging are review copies and drama. I actually had to *gasp* wait for Shatter Me to be released to the general public. I didn't mind the wait because Shatter Me sounds like it was worth waiting for. After reading it I'm sad to say it did not live up to my hopes.

I was expecting an action filled book with a kick ass heroine. We do get to see some of that every now and than but it wasn't often enough. I enjoyed the beginning of Shatter Me. Juliette's experiences in the mental hospital (if you can even call it that) were disturbing. For a time, I felt as if I was trapped in that room with Juliette. Once Adam comes into the picture, the book become less action and suspense and more romance. Too much romance IMHO. If I had to read about Adam's sexy abs blue eyes one more time... well I'll let you imagine what I might do. Shatter Me was more romance than dystopian novel. Which is fine if you enjoy romance novels GAG.

Another problem with Shatter Me was the lack of an ending extremely metaphorical writing style. It got tiresome rather quickly. It also made it more difficult for me to become a part of the story. I felt like I was reading a book about fictional characters and not one with real flesh and blood characters. If real people spent so much time describing leaves and the weather they would never get anything done. It just gave me a headache.

Some things I did like: the strike throughs, Adam's sexy blue eyes Warner, the super sekrit underground society. I loved the strike outs/throughs/whateverthehellyoucallthem through the book and I don't know why. They were cool looking and they let us get into Juliette's head a little more. Warner was an awesome villain. He was creepy, sexy heartless, and just evil. All of the things that make a perfect guy villan

Who doesn't love a super sekrit underground society? As long as they don't eventually turn into the Morlock's. I hope we get to see more of these underground people in future books. From the way Shatter Me ended, I imagine we will.

Overall, I enjoyed Shatter Me to a certain extent. I'm not sorry that I bought it, but I won't be running or walking out to the store to get the sequel. ...more

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May 20, 2012 Angie Taylor rated it it was amazing

I loved, loved, loved this book. It's a little bit Hunger Games meets X-Men, so not the most original, but it totally worked for me. The writing is beautiful in a first person narrative, pulling the reader in emotionally from the beginning. I really loved the inner workings of Juliette's mind as her narrative effectively illustrated her dilema between insane and sane. A big fan of the love story, and I loved the age old idea that Juliette and Adam were meant for each other. I'm excited to discov ...more

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Nov 07, 2011 Mary rated it liked it · review of another edition

Entertaining. Kind of smutty but I liked it once I got used to the, um, unique prose. And strikeouts. I will be picking up the second if I remember to a year from now.

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